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"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."
-- Graydon
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray
Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson
Cowardice rules - if that's okay with you.
(graffiti in London)
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham
Lost: gray and white female cat. Answers to electric can opener.
Err. I'm visualising. I'm either really scared, or really turned on.
Or both. Maybe that's a typical reaction to Skud.
-- Rebecca B. Gray
Those who don't know, talk. Those who don't talk, know.
"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
-- Seymour Cray (on virtual memory)
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-- Don Marquis
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)
Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)
A penny saved is 2.5 grams of zinc alloy.
Donkey: a horse designed by a study team.
"Friends don't let Friends drive Naked."
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne
The reward for a job well done is more work.
I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
They don't make nostalgia like they used to.
"Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom."
-- Eric S. Raymond
Don't intterupt me when I'm talking to myself
You'll go to Heck if you don't believe in Gosh.
No job is so simple that is can't be done wrong.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
-- George MacDonald
Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time.
Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people that don't matter.
Don't sweat petty things... or pet sweaty things.
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-- Don Herold
Don't publicly appear clever. It is a real nuisance.
You can't make a program without breaking some egos.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
"Good food, good meat, good god - let's eat!"
-- Prayer by Homer Simpson
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
-- Donald E. Knuth
Don't torture yourself, that's what friends are for.
"The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"
In case of nuclear war, prayer in schools will be okay.
Any research done on how to efficiently use computers has been long lost in the mad rush to upgrade systems to do things that aren't needed by people who don't understand what they are really supposed to do with them.
-- Graham Reed
"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
-- Mao Zedong ("Quotations from Chairman Mao," 1966)
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson
"Hey, Aeryn's gorgeous--she can change any guy's tune. She can also change 'im from tenor to soprano, but that's beside the point."
-- Grace
Persuasion rules, OK? - just this once?
(graffiti in Brighton)
The Two Rules of Success: 1. Don't tell everything you know.
"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year."
-- Dixy Lee Ray
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
-- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996, when he was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.)
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon
Fight for the right to pretend to work.
(graffiti, in Marylebone)
Lesbians, when only the breast will do.
(graffiti in Sydney, NSW)
"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."
-- Paul Graham
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brain.
"Don't drink and park. Accidents cause people."
(Bumper Sticker)
VB is very useful for allowing non programmers to prove they cant program.
-- Druck
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
What part of "AWW C'MON, PLEASE??" don't you understand?
(T-Shirt)
Those who say money can't buy happiness don't know where to shop.
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.
("Confound those who have said our remarks before us.")
-- Aelius Donatus
"I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know."
-- Tori Amos
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce.
Science is the belief that we don't need belief to know most things.
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
-- Stanley Milgram
You go right on thinking that. Don't let reality stop you.
-- dpm
Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.
-- Ray Simard
Grasshoppotamus: A creature that can leap to tremendous heights, once.